Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz

3 reviews

demimimica's review

dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

Rating this memoir with anything less than 5 stars feels like reducing the suffering of hundreds of people to arbitrary criteria such as “is it well written enough?” “Is this memoir sad enough?” “Is it orderly and understandable?” “Is it easy for me to digest?” I understand using these criteria to judge fiction, but this is different. These events happened. These people died. The book is engulfed in flames and the most gut-wrenching, enthralling anger.

This doesn't feel like something for me to judge. It is a cry for help, and all we can do is listen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Suicide, Abortion, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

abbeythomsen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense

5.0

devestating, beautiful, essential, life-altering. we don't deserve David Wojnarowicz.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

karlo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

3.75

the fact that the acknowledgments had to be split into the living and the dead... who's cutting onions?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Hate crime, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Car accident, and Murder